Question

According to social scientists, prejudice and discrimination are the same thing. Please select the best answer from the choices provided
a. True
b. False

Answer 1

False because prejudice is not the some as discrimination

Answer 2

This statement is False. According to social sciences, prejudice is a preconceived opinion towards a person, a member of a group or a whole group, and is not based on reason or real experience. Prejudice can be manifested as affective feelings towards someone, exclusively on the basis of that person's belonging to a group.

Discrimination is an unjust, harmful and prejudicial treatment of different categories of people, can be based on race, age or gender. In human social behavior, according to social sciences, discrimination involves discriminatory treatment or making a difference between a person or a group based on a different race, sex, age, etc.

The difference between prejudice and discrimination in a social sense is that prejudice is maintained in one's opinion and does not necessarily mean discriminatory treatment towards someone. Discrimination implies a discriminatory act towards someone, and usually those who do so may have an already created prejudice towards someone, which is the reason for their discriminatory action. Hence, there is a similarity between these two negative social phenomena, although they are not the same.